Identifier: appendixtojourna19151cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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aveapproximately $300,000 invested in buildings and their equipment.Besides this there are the boats, about 125 of them, worth at least$300,000 more. Following is a list of the canneries with their estimated capacity:Van Camp Sea Food Company, San Pedro.Formerly the California Tunny Canning Company. They can handle 3.5 tonsof dressed fish daily : put up the Van Camps Brand.White Star Canning Company, East San Pedro. Capacity, 15 tons daily ; put up the White Star Brand.Southern California Fish Company. East San Pedro. Capacity, 15 tons daily; put up the Blue Sea Brand.United States Fish Packing Company, Wilmington. Capacity, 5 tons dailj.United Tuna Company, AVilmington. Capacity, 25 tons.Monarch Canning Company, Wilmington. Capacity S tons daily ; put up the De Lux Brand.Los Angeles Tuna Canning Company, Long Beach.Capacity, 15 tons; put up the Panama Brand.South Coast Canning Company, Long Beach,(^ipacity, 35 tons; put up the Avalon Brand. REPORT OF THE PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 121
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122 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION Lower California Canning Company, San Diego. Occupies the site of the former Roberts-Hume Fisheries Company ; capacity,20 tons.Pacific Tuna Canning Company, San Diego. Capacity, 20 tons; put up the Catalina Brand.Premier Packing Company, San Diego. Capacity, 15 tons; put up the Premium Brand. Of these canneries the Southern California Fish Company has cannedsardines for several years. At least three others, the Lower CaliforniaCanning Company, San Diego, the South Coast Canning Company,Long Beach, and the Van Camp Sea Food Company, San Pedro, will cansardines this winter. The rest of the canneries are likely to soon becanning other varieties of fish, rather than allow their plants to be idlethe five or six months between tuna runs. These canneries will greatlyexpand the fishing industry of southern California. Improved methodsof fishing will undoubtedly be introduced. The taking of albacore withhook and line is rather a primitive method, but

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